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James48

(5,149 posts)
12. Fun fact-
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:08 PM
11 hrs ago

I used to work for the Feds. We had great IT people who were also Feds in our agency.
The bean counters came in, and outsourced all the IT services. The guys we worked with- suddenly became contractors, or assigned elsewhere. Nobody could get anything done IT wise- it took two days to get a IT human callback.
All those backups? Somebody forgot to add that into the contracting out- turns out two years were not backed up at all. With a change of contractor, all history goes out the window, including backed up data.

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Fbi says," The internet ate our homework !" questionseverything 13 hrs ago #1
and besides... RussBLib 12 hrs ago #7
How convenient. FalloutShelter 13 hrs ago #2
Bullshit- there are always backups. walkingman 13 hrs ago #3
Exactly... total panicked bullshit. FalloutShelter 13 hrs ago #5
Yes. All agencies are legally required to maintain temporary and permanent records. Starfury 13 hrs ago #6
The missing data is in the same place as the missing minutes DavidDvorkin 13 hrs ago #4
How convenient purr-rat beauty 12 hrs ago #8
"lost" progressoid 12 hrs ago #9
This coming from our Dept. of Justice. republianmushroom 11 hrs ago #10
I do hope Iran releases all they were able to access.... Bev54 11 hrs ago #11
Fun fact- James48 11 hrs ago #12
I can attest to that BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago #14
I'm with everyone else on this debsy 11 hrs ago #13
Musk orangecrush 11 hrs ago #15
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